Robertson, Ben and Robinson, Ian M. and Stocks, D. and Thompson, Richard L. (2022) 'Shear processing maps: a new design guide for melt processors.', Plastics, rubber and composites macromolecular engineering., 51 (5). pp. 217-239.
Abstract
A method for predicting the optimal conditions for polymer extrusion, which relies only on gramscale laboratory experiments for two commercial polystyrene samples with two molecular weights is demonstrated by oscillatory rheology. These enable a shear viscosity map vs. temperature and shear rate to be constructed, together with the positions for the major molecular timescales. Alternative methods for characterising rheology, including melt flow index and capillary rheology measurements were also employed, but these do not give the same level of understanding of flow behaviour. The capillary tests generates die swell and this complex behaviour can be seen to collapse onto a single line regardless of temperature when plotted using the Rouse–Weissenberg number. The full shear viscosity map, together with the polymer timescales serves as a design tool to predict processing behaviour for melt processors. The work represents and builds on major academic-industry collaborative research programmes.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (Advance online version) (5843Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14658011.2020.1796082 |
Publisher statement: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Date accepted: | 07 May 2020 |
Date deposited: | 05 August 2020 |
Date of first online publication: | 27 July 2020 |
Date first made open access: | 05 August 2020 |
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